1 post tagged “the running man”
A short one today since I'm running achingly later in the day which means it's time to delve deep into the box of techno and pull out the only song to my knowledge which contains samples from both Arnie starring dystopia-fest "The Running Man" and perennially controversial but emminently quotable Python vehicle "The Life of Brian"
As a particularly obnoxious child, I was always desperate to show off how much more I knew about music than everyone else*. Knowing that extra song gives you the edge on your peers: a throwaway playground remark along the lines of “have you heard Messiah’s version of I Feel Love?” can be instantly trumped with a retort of “actually Temple Of Dreams is far superior”, stunning your classmate into awestruck silence for the rest of double Maths. Technically this could also be achieved by referencing an obscure song by a different artist, but then you run the risk of your opponent thinking you haven’t actually heard of Messiah at all and are BLUFFING.
* Amazingly enough, knowing obscure music trivia is actually more useful in my current job than my degree. Suck on that, academia!
In fact you should go read the whole of Blog'92, right from the very start, since it's awesome. I mean how can you not love something which starts:
On my eleventh birthday I received a copy of a tape called “Rave ‘92” through the post from my sister Grace, who was away at university. It was the second tape she had made for me whilst she was away, (the first being a random mix of grebo, soul, indie and ‘Love Shack’ by the B52s) and the 4th tape I owned in total - tapes 2 and 3 being the Best Of The Seekers and Roxette’s Joyride.
The inlay sleeve for my new tape had the tracklisting neatly written out in capital letters: black biro for the track title and red for the artist name all the way up until track 2, when the track titles were black and the artist names were red. On the inside of the inlay was written:
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHERINE!!
p.s. Mum & Dad will really hate this! So PLAY IT LOUD“
... and which then goes on to review all 24 tracks with a mix of enviable enthusiams, well tempered nostalgia, solid music geekery and more than a sprinkle of humour. In fact it's everything I basically aspire to, but fall short of, in these here Music Monday posts.
